Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 6
The only troops really devoted to the Prime Minister’s cause are those at the Capital; in fact, the others are hostile to him.
Who acts: only troops, those, Prime Minister · What happens: be, cause · To what, where: those, Capital, Jo, fact
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (only troops, those, Prime Minister), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 troops | det |
| 2 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 troops | amod |
| 3 | troops | troops | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 13 those | nsubj |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 devoted | advmod |
| 5 | devoted | devoted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 troops | amod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 cause | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Minister | det |
| 8 | Prime | Prime | PROPN | _ | 9 Minister | compound |
| 9 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 cause | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 Minister | case |
| 11 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 devoted | obl |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 those | cop |
| 13 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 24 hostile | nsubj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 Capital | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Capital | det |
| 16 | Capital | Capital | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 those | nmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 those | punct |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 fact | case |
| 19 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hostile | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 fact | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 others | det |
| 22 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 hostile | nsubj |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 hostile | cop |
| 24 | hostile | hostile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 hostile | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 hostile | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the only troops | those | the Capital | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | those | Jo | fact | the others nsubj; hostile property | tree rules | ||
| 3 | cause | the Prime Minister | nom cause «event transitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Winning Buddha's smile», Project Gutenberg book 78208 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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